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Roger McGuinn said Bob Dylan didn't recognize his own song when the Byrds performed it for him
The Byrds' founder talked to us about the origins of folk-rock, the allure of 12-string Rickenbackers and his eternal love of ...
Roger McGuinn cleared up a longstanding rumor about the 1967 Byrds classic ‘So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.’ ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr. Tambourine Man by The Byrds is one of very few cover versions to have arrived less than a month after the original. The song ...
Roger McGuinn was adamant that 'Mr Spaceman' wasn't about tripping. The Byrds frontman had a far stranger plan instead, for ...
The Beatles’ 1966 album, Revolver, changed the lives of countless listeners, and that included members of The Byrds. At this point, the latter band was already famous in its own right, thanks to their ...
It was in a smallish night club on the Sunset Strip that the Byrds broke in their act and suddenly became the best-loved and most exciting group in Los Angeles. That was eight hit songs, six albums, ...
On this day (June 26) in 1965, the Byrds were at No. 1 on the Hot 100 with “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Written by Bob Dylan and released just a month after his original cut was released on Bringing It All ...
Revisiting The Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock N Roll Star” 55 years later, from the Monkees to REM
In late December, Tom Petty‘s Twitter account resurfaced a 1985 live clip of Petty and his band the Heartbreakers running through their take on The Byrds’ “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star.” The ...
When Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman staged a reunion appearance with David Crosby, they had to call themselves the Original Byrds. That basically sums up the troubled times they lived through in the ...
Through all the seismic changes of the '60s, the Byrds were at the forefront of several. They were pioneers in the burgeoning folk-rock movement in the middle of the decade, then swerved into ...
There is an old music joke I point out to the Byrds’ Chris Hillman. It’s about how the Velvet Underground’s seminal first album only sold 10,000 copies but all 10,000 of those buyers started a band.
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Not the Byrds, not Buffalo Springfield: The band that time forgot helped invent country rock
You probably don't remember this band, even though they released more than 20 albums, helped launch country rock, and included future members of the Eagles.
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